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Summary: Super Bowl I - X
Review: At last those awesome Super Bowl highlight films produced by NFL Films are making it to DVD. I used to watch these every year on ESPN around Super Bowl time. When DVD first came on the scene I kept saying time and again that these Super Bowl highlights should be released on DVD. You know, I would have been happy with simple releases of the highlight films, maybe four per disc, in standard keepcases. Instead, they did it even better by producing a fine collector's edition set of the first ten highlight films, complete and unedited (YES!), in an attractive box and with tons of extra goodies. There are half-hour long programs preceeding each highlight film that covers the season leading up to that Super Bowl, plus several featurettes spotlighting teams, players and coaches. You even get a replica Super Bowl ticket inside the packaging! Very nice touch. Kudos to NFL Films and Warner Home Video for this five-star collection. Now bring on SUPER BOWL XI - XX!
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Summary: Super Bowl and NFL Flims on DVD--At Last!
Review: At long last, NFL Flims has released a DVD on the Super Bowls. It is complete with NFL Flims narration of the first ten games, unedited and without commercial breaks (unlike when ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPN Classic shows them). Plus, the bonus:
Seasonal recaps from 1966-1975 and extra features.Now bring on Super Bowls XI-XX!
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Summary: Well Worth the Wait!!!
Review: First of all, let me start by saying I have been purchasing NFL Films videos since 1980, on Beta no less!! I have seen hundreds of their productions, but NEVER have they looked or sounded better!!!
Since the advent of DVD, I have been waiting for Steve Sabol(president of NFL Films) to do his products justice. The long wait was worth it. I have seen these Super Bowl highlight films many times, but it was like seeing them again for the first time. The packaging, menus, extras are faultless! Even the menus have full length music tracks!! And there are some wonderful surprises, too!!! All, or least most, look as if they have been restored. In some cases, the color and clarity is striking!!
In short, I can't iamgine anything better for this particular subject. Now, if Mr. Sabol would release team highlights (the original ones) on DVD and maybe a few CDs of that wonderful NFL Films music, all would be right in this man's football world!!
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Summary: Context is key to success for Super Bowl set
Review: For fans who are very familiar with NFL Films' Super Bowl highlights after countless marathon viewings right before each year's big game, the main draw of this five-disc set is having the added context of the annual season-in-review films. The 1966 season isn't really summarized in "They Call It Pro Football," the feature preceeding Super Bowl I, but beginning with "1967," we get some sense of how the conference champions reached the Super Bowl. Also interesting to see are the very good playoff teams that came up short. Some of the season-in-review films take the straightforward approach of explaining which teams won each division, and briefly recap what happened to the also-rans. This is true of the 1967, 1969 and 1970 features. In other years, the approach is less direct, as a look at the season's outstanding rookies, strategies or units segues into a discussion of the teams. Key playoff games are generally highlighted, including many classics, such as 1967's "Ice Bowl" between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, the 1969 Minnesota Vikings-Los Angeles Rams divisional playoff, the Miami Dolphins-Kansas City Chiefs overtime thriller in 1971, and the Dallas-Minnesota showdown in 1975. The extra features are all very short, and some of them will be familiar to viewers of "NFL Films Presents" and other NFL Films programs. The Super Bowls themselves are presented in the traditional, effective NFL Films style, making even lackluster contests compelling through thorough explanations of strategy, Sam Spence's celebrated music scores, and John Facenda's classic narration. The fascinating season-in-review footage underscores the need for a comprehensive release of annual highlight films, at least for the dominant teams of the last few decades, as I said in a review of "NFL Films Inside the Vault: Vols. 1-3." I have not seen the "History Of" DVD sets on the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, but it does appear that these, taken together with the "Super Bowl I-X" set, represent a definite step in the right direction.
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Summary: Where are the games?!
Review: I haven't seen these versions. I don't want them. I want the games themselves. Why can't the NFL understand that? Give us the games in their entirety and please not narrated. Original broadcasts or just crowd noise. Why do they think we can't enjoy the games themselves and that instead we must be spoonfed highlights with narrations? Each Superbowl deserves its own DVD with the entire game and then throw in the extras.
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Summary: only highlights
Review: I heard that the NFL was releasing the past superbowls on dvd, I was excited to say the least. Then I found out these are only highlight films. A real dissappointment to say the least. The films are available in their entirety; why not release them? I was willing to pay well over one hundred dollars for each box of ten super bowls, as were several of the people that I was at a super bowl party with this year. Too bad the NFL fell short again.
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Summary: NFL FILMS RULE!!
Review: I love those old nfl films from back in the 70's.Now you can get it on dvd with greater clarity and extra features which makes it even better.I hope nfl films puts all of there old productions on dvd.I would buy them all! Now I'm waiting for Super Bowls XI-XX
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Summary: What a waste . . . again
Review: I will not give the NFL a single red cent until they crawl out of their hole and release the complete unedited broadcasts of the entire games. They are wasting a great opportunity. How great it would be to watch every play, with all those great players of the past, to actually relive those great games. Who wants another edited rehash with some overpaid talking head pontificating about things every football fan already knows. Please do not buy this garbage. Make them do the right thing!
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Summary: The best & worst of the big dance
Review: I've always been a fan of NFL Films' half-hour Super Bowl game recap/highlight shows that play on ESPN2 during the week leading up to the big game, and lamenting the fact that they never bothered to put any of 'em out on DVD. Fortunately, they finally came around and put out this collection of highlight shows for the first ten Super Bowls, as well as quick NFL season recaps leading up to the championship. Which is good, 'cuz now I won't have to worry about my gradually deteriorating VHS tapes of the episodes I've recorded off of ESPN2 over the few post-seasons getting eaten by my VCR! While I thought the recap shows alone were worth the bucks my mom & pop paid for it as a Christmas present (thanks, guys!), NFL Films added even more value to the presentation by throwing two featurettes in with each Super Bowl game. Included among these mini-shows are brief profiles of the careers of Bart Starr, Terry Bradshaw, Bob Lilly, Jack Lambert, and Roger Staubach. Also showcased: the silent enigma that was Cowboys RB Duane Thomas, the Dolphins' undefeated 1972 season and their famed(?) "No-Name" defense of the early 70s, the legacy of Tom Landry, the fights that broke out between CBS and NBC before, during, and after their simultaneous broadcast of Game I, the Minnesota Vikings setting the standard for Super Bowl futility, and other sideline stuff I never knew about before. Now if only they'd release on CD some of those amazing soundtrack tunes that compliment the game action.... Topping off this set's sack o' goodies is a booklet that features images and basic info on each contest, including the date each game was played on and the city & stadium it was played in, program covers, championship rings, rosters, scores by quarter & final scores, and the name & position of each game MVP. A glossy, full-color Super Bowl X ticket facsimile adds a nice finishing touch to it all. But even though I enjoyed viewing just about every single show and featurette contained within this set, being the big-time 49er faithful and Redskin-rooter that I am, I never really appreciated the first decade of "the great American time-out" as much as I do the Super Bowls to come. With luck, this bad-boy will sell well enough to justify the release of the Super Bowls XI-XX DVD box set, which'll cover a few of my all-time fave championships, including the 49ers's victories in XVI & XIX, the 'Skins claiming XVII, and the Bears' 46 defense in peak form against the Pats in XX. And don't even get me started on XXI to XXX... 'Late
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Summary: Every football fan should have this...
Review: I've been an NFL Films aficionado since the late 70's, when I was just a little kid. I have amassed a large library of their fine work, and I bought this DVD set the day it came out. I expected a lot, but I GOT MORE!!! This is an amazing set. Not only do you get remastered and unedited versions of the classic highlights of the first 10 Super Bowls, there's also a 30-minute recap of each season from 1966-1975. Also lots of bonus features on Bradshaw, Landry, Stram, etc. Every football fan who is a fan of NFL Films or the sport's history should put this at the top of their X-mas list!!!
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